Carl The Trailer

fastened his gaze. It looked like a tuft of grass on the top of a swell, but as Carl looked at it he saw it move just a trifle. He was as certain as he wa

, ain't you?" s

he guide. "There is an Indian up there, an

n, and the captain brought his binoculars to bear

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me grass

ay as though we had missed the trail, and hide behind some of these swells until that tuft of grass goes a

an follow this trail in

said the gu

Then the guide told the captain that if he would go back with him he would show him something. The officer left the command behind the

et," said the captain, look

ch it for a few minutes

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grass that sheltered an Indian, and declared that if the guide had not been with him he never would have seen those Comanches again. They made their camp there behind the swell, eating hardtack and raw pork for want of a fire to cook by, and shortly after dark started on the trail again. At midnight the men stopped to r

ge 30 you don't know how many savages there are watching you," said Carl, once more inter

that out?" said

"That was the time I counted them. I found three moccasin tracks of diff

a camp of-how many me

ixty, I

soldiers and stealing a dozen horses!" said Parker, in

ned and went back. Of course the camp was alive after they found that I had located the Indians. Three or four men were left to care for the horses, and the rest of us crept forward to make the attack. The captain would not listen to my advice in regard to surrounding the camp, but when he arrived within sight of it he

heir feet and rushed upon the camp. For himself, Carl did nothing. He just waited to find the Comanches, but he did not hear anybody shoot. After

ey gone?" aske

pretty well during the pursuit, but you are no man to fight Indians. You have g

he had but little to say. He sent a couple of men down after the horses he had left in the ravine, and ordered the soldiers to go into c

Trailer?" asked Parker, when his comp

he trail was something marvellous to them. Some of them had friends in Fort Scott, and when I went back I took a lot of mail for them. Of course they had something to say

ker. "Do you know anything about the Ghost Dance? Some people in the East think it is a myth, a new religion th

he people down East think it is a myth, they want to go among the Sioux at the present ti

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sake of going to war wit

, and lived on the borders of the Mason Valley, which is a long way from here. The time he dis

sense is the meaning

of the sun took place, and that is an event that is regarded with horror by all primitive people. The Indians hold that the sun is a living being, and that some monster Page 35 is trying to devour it; and the noise and hubbub which they create to frighten this monster away, such as firing off guns, blowing upon horns and yelling, is enough to drive one cra

o had never been to school a day in his life, and yet knew more about some

d volition, the body and limbs preserving whatever position may be given them. For example, you put

rd the lieutenant. There was something in West Point af

f I suppose he was all read

arth he was more for peace than he ever was. He told his people that they must send their children to school and

take it that wa

one with that man as well as not, but I was like the majority of our people out here. We heard of the new religion Page 37 and laughed at it; but it seems that there was something in it. Wovoka did not claim to be the Messiah, but he did claim to be a dreamer. But an Indian never does anything without a dance, and he taught the

of the Ghost Dance, anyway

an race, living and dead, will reunite upon the earth and li

e is all gone,

e the same as t

f warriors coming toward the earth driving before them a lot of animals-buffalo, Page 38 deer, elk and poni

n only come by extinction of

ves. They are going to keep up this Ghost Dance to

er. "I will not interrupt you again, but

war. Whether or not the men they sent out to investigate the matter lied to them I don't know; but if this thing is not put a stop to right away, we are going to have an outbreak

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raise if they all go to wa

; and we can bring about th

es the Sioux nation

wenty th

his tobacco-bag and filled up f